Shadow Build

Anita

Hello,
What is the difference between building with shadow build checked and unchecking shadow build? Can testcases be built with checking the option of shadow build?

jsulm

@Anita The difference is that if shadow build is activated you will get a build directory outside of your project source directory where all build artefacts will be (such as your executable). This has several advantages:

Your source tree is not polluted with build artefacts (especially useful when using CVS)
You can build for different targets with different configurations without destroying your other builds (each configuration will have its own build directory)
You can easily do a complete clean rebuild: simply delete build directory and build

Tests work with shadow build also.